From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market seemed very slow today after a long holiday weekend.

As of now, the indices are consolidating.

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Carl Icahn, who revealed a purchase of $11.2 million in Southwest Gas Holdings $SWX.

Icahn now owns 15.65% of outstanding shares of SWX.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As I write this note, $SPY has finally filled its gap pre-market at 421.22.

The push higher was brought on by the debt ceiling deal.

You're hearing a lot these days about weakening market breadth.

But if you've noticed, those lies are only coming from journalists and other types of people with no formal...

In bull markets historically there's less of a need, or no need at all, for the safest stocks.

These defensive sectors include areas like Consumer Staples, Utilities,...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Typical market action on a pre-holiday weekend trading day: Rally time!

The indices were up more than 1%, and we're heading...

I’m a serial tinkerer with trading strategies, particularly in index options trading. In most cases, I’ll start with a simple concept and iterate from lessons learned along the way.

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by the executive chairman of Energy Transfer LP $ET, Kelcy Warren.

Warren revealed yet another ET purchase, this one worth  $4.4 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Happy Memorial Day, and thank you to our Veterans!

It's Friday, and it's options expiration, so trading is bound to be more difficult today.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

This market can easily whip you around.

We have the Nasdaq really doing all the lifting.

There are a lot of negatives...